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LAHORE: The Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) has written a letter to Salman Butt, the coach of star javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem, seeking the reasons behind a sharp decline in the athlete’s performance including his below-par show in the World Athletics Championship held in Tokyo last week. The 28-year-old Arshad, who made entire Pakistan feel proud by winning gold medal with a record 92.97-metre throw at the 2024 Paris Olympics, finished a poor 10th in the world championship. In the letter, a copy of which is available with Dawn, the AFP has asked several questions from Salman and directed him…
ASIA CUP 2025 Pakistan managed to recover from 49/5 to 135/8 © Getty Led by a clinical bowling performance on a surface where run-making wasn’t easy, Pakistan defended their joint-lowest total against Bangladesh and booked a place in the final of the 2025 Asia Cup, where they will face India on Sunday. Led by a late blitz from Mohammad Haris and Mohammad Nawaz, Pakistan posted 135 for 8, a total handy to beat Bangladesh by 11 runs on Friday, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium Where was the game won? Death overs: Heading into the death overs, even if marginally,…
ASIA CUP 2025 India have dropped 12 catches in the tournament, eight of them in the last two games alone © Getty This meeting could have been an email. India have already qualified, Sri Lanka are already out and there’s really not much riding on this Asia Cup fixture. Yes, there’s a T20 World Cup in a few months time and while that will also be played in Asia, the conditions are going to be very different from what Dubai offers. But still, it’s a match that both teams would try and look to use. India have spent this Asia…
England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt hit 122 as the visitors secured a morale-boosting 152-run over tournament co-hosts India in their first of two warm-up matches for the Women’s World Cup.Setting their opponents the impressive target of 339-9 after batting first to productive effect in Bengaluru, England got India all out for 187 after just 34 overs, with Linsey Smith and Sophie Ecclestone taking two wickets apiece. Sciver-Brunt’s total, which included 13 fours and two sixes, came from 105 balls before she retired out.Emma Lamb dovetailed with 81 off 59 balls, with Amy Jones (39) and Heather Knight (37) also contributing solid…
Michael Atherton suspects Jacob Bethell will get the nod to start at No 3 over Ollie Pope in the first Ashes Test in Perth.Atherton and fellow former England captain Nasser Hussain dissected the England squad named for the Ashes series in Australia, which starts at Optus Stadium on November 21, on the latest edition of the Sky Sports Cricket podcast. Hussain said England’s selection panel “had not blinked” in choosing a squad to suit the style in which head coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes want to play, while Atherton said the change of vice-captain from Pope to Harry…
AUSTRALIA A TOUR OF INDIA 2025 KL Rahul retired on 74 © Getty After bowling Australia A out for 185 in the second innings, India A made steady progress towards their 412-run target in the 2nd Unofficial Test at Lucknow. On the final day of the game, India A will still require 243 runs to win with eight wickets in hand. Having lost four wickets cheaply at the end of Day 2, Australia A mounted resistance this morning. Nathan McSweeney and Josh Philippe shared a 90-run stand for the fifth wicket to rescue their side from a perilous position. Philippe’s…
Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed led from the front with a century against Warwickshire as they secured the two bonus points they needed to be crowned county champions for the first time in 15 years.Hameed scored 122 at the top of the order, setting up the hosts to comfortably go past the 300 they needed to get the points to win a seventh title by moving out of the reach of defending champions Surrey. Joe Clarke (52) and Kyle Verreynne maintained the momentum, with the latter bringing up his half-century with a cover drive for four before pulling his next scoring…
INDIA WOMEN – INJURY UPDATE Reddy was hit on the knee and had to be helped off the field © Getty India suffered an injury scare ahead of the World Cup 2025 campaign with medium-pace allrounder Arundhati Reddy wheeled off the field in their first official warmup at the BCCI CoE in Bengaluru on Thursday (September 25). The incident occurred in the 13th over of England’s batting, after India – under Jemimah Rodrigues – opted to bowl first. After two no-balls on the trot and conceding a six off the second, Arundhati managed to squeeze in a dot, which the…
Joe Root has warned England will hit Australia with something different in this winter’s eagerly-anticipated Ashes series.Ben Stokes takes a 16-man squad to Australia for the five-Test series, from November 21 to January 8, with the objective of reclaiming the urn for the first time since 2015. Root, England’s all-time leading run-scorer, spearheads a batting line-up tasked with breaking Australia’s dominance and firing the tourists to an historic victory Down Under.”It’s a big series like that against a side that have got a great record at home, especially against us previously,” Root told Sky Sports News. “But I think it’s…
After posting sub-par 135-8, Pakistan hit back with three wickets in topsy-turvy clash against Bangladesh. Pakistan stumbled to 135-8 in the virtual semi-final against Bangladesh in their men’s Asia Cup Super Four fixture at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. The winner will book a place in the final against India. Live Coverage begins (Refresh for updates): Pakistan’s chase Over 8 — Bangladesh – 44-3 Mohammad Nawaz into the attack! Over 7 — Bangladesh – 38-3 6.2: Abrar into the attack, and Nurul had no idea which way that one was turning! Abrar comes into the attack and delivers a…